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02198aam a2200337Ii 4500 001 F2323A08800711ECA828FA2942ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220128010012 008 191220s2020 nyu 000 1 eng d 020 $a 9781250758002 020 $a 1250758009 035 $a (OCoLC)1132236895 040 $a YDX $b eng $e rda $c YDX $d BDX $d OCLCQ $d TXC $d GP5 $d TWU $d OCLCF $d SILO 043 $a n-us-ks 100 1 $a Lerner, Ben, $d 1979- $e author. 245 14 $a The Topeka school / $c Ben Lerner. 250 $a First Picador paperback edition. 264 1 $a New York : $b Picador, $c 2020. 300 $a 282 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a Adam Gordon is a senior at Topeka High School, class of '97. His mother, Jane, is a famous feminist author; his father, Jonathan, is an expert at getting "lost boys" to open up. They both work at a psychiatric clinic that has attracted staff and patients from around the world. Adam is a renowned debater, expected to win a national championship before he heads to college. He is one of the cool kids, ready to fight or, better, freestyle about fighting if it keeps his peers from thinking of him as weak. Adam is also one of the seniors who bring the loner Darren Eberheart--who is, unbeknownst to Adam, his fathers' patient--into the social scene, to disastrous effect. Deftly shifting perspectives and time periods, The Topeka School is the story of one family's struggles and strengths: Jane's reckoning with the legacy of an abusive father, Jonathan's marital transgressions, the challenge of raising a good son in a culture of toxic masculinity. It is also a riveting prehistory of the present: the collapse of public speech, the trolls and tyrants of the New Right, and the ongoing crisis of identity among white men. 650 0 $a High school students $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Teenage boys $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Women authors $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Psychologists $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Families $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Nineteen nineties $v Fiction. 651 0 $a Topeka (Kan.) $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l OPAX566 $d 20220128010306.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=F2323A08800711ECA828FA2942ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b UIRInitiate Another SILO Locator Search